“A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson
From the Big Bang, to the 5 mass extinctions, to the rise of Homo Sapien, Bill Bryson takes us in an incredible journey to learn about our universe, our planet, and everything in it. Within the 500+ pages the book covers, well, nearly everything about what we know [so far] from the lens of science, narrated in an easy style of writing suited for non-scientist lay people.
We’ll hear about the best of the best people, the Nobel Prize-winning all stars, and their stories in discovering their theory, their struggles in testing their hypothesis, and their eureka moments in inventing their ground breaking device for the advancement of humanity.
We’ll learn about the planetary system, how to make sense of time and space, the discovery of dinosaur, what’s inside atom, on proton and neutron, on gravity, how to calculate carbon dating, on predicting earth quake and volcano eruption, about the Ice Age, the younger dryas period, on complete human biology filled with mitochondria ATP and the rest, the curious case of DNA, the many types of humans other than Homo Sapien and what happened to them, and so much more, including how 99.99% of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us, and how the average lifespan of complex organism is about 4 million years (roughly where we are now).
And while the range of topics in the book is very wide, Bryson is still able to demonstrate that everything in the universe are connected and prove his most profound conclusion about life in the universe: that all life is one. It is such a fascinating book, perfect for understanding the big picture.
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